Sentences with phrase «rare earth oxides»

I wanted to buy some rare earth oxides and noticed the unit price is 6 or more times more expensive in the USA than if bought from China, even with international shipping included.

Last year, China produced 97 % (120 000 t) of the world's rare earth oxides, while it also controls half of the earth's known reserves.»

By next year, the site hopes to produce 2.7 million kilograms of rare earth oxides a year — separating the elements from the ore using a liquid ion - exchange process.

By 2015, they hope to be at full production, producing 18 million kilograms of various rare earth oxides a year.

Not exact matches

Mount Weld is one of the highest - grade rare - earths oxide deposits in the world, with 23.9 million tonnes at an average grade of 7.9 per cent.

The process employs a strong acid and a base to separate the rare earths — the so - called chlor — alkali solvent extraction method — but it still will not produce pure rare earths; rather it will yield oxides of cerium, lanthanum, praseodymium and neodymium.

Even if the existence of magnetic monopoles as elementary particles remains a fundamental open question, condensed - matter physicists have managed to reproduce artificial versions of these exotic particles in rare - earth oxide crystals called «spin ices.»

Cerium dioxide is an oxide of the rare earth element cerium and a by - product of the process of extraction of rare earth metals.

Professor Park Je - Geun, Associate Director of the Center for Correlated Electron Systems (CCES), within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), and colleagues have observed, quantified and created a new theoretical model of the coupling of two forms of collective atomic excitation, known as magnons and phonons in crystals of the antiferromagnet manganite (Y, Lu) MnO3, a mineral made of manganese oxide and rare - earth elements called yttrium (Y) and lutetium (Lu).

Further testing of the material suggested that crosslinking, or bonding, using transition metals and rare - earth metals, caused the graphene oxide to possess new semiconducting, magnetic and optical properties.

But rare - earth oxides can dissolve in the glaze to create more exotic hues, such as pink and lime green, with a sharp, electric appearance that artists love.

Each wall piece contains a tin oxide used in smart phones, one crystal of Cassiterite, and several rare earth magnets, combining to change the «electromagnetic charge of the gallery space».

Using these new commercially available superconductors, rare - earth barium copper oxide (REBCO) superconducting tapes, to produce high - magnetic field coils «just ripples through the whole design,» says Dennis Whyte, a professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center.